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History Weekend
Friday
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5:30 PM
Reception for Friends of the Library. Invitation Only
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7:30 PM
Movie: Desk Set (1957) starring Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn
Erdhal Cloyd Auditorium D.H.Hill Library
Saturday
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9:30 AM
Coffee and Bagels -
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Main Lecture Dr. Robert Darnton
Dr. Robert Darnton is currently the Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the Harvard University Library.
We think of blogs and tweets as peculiar to the twenty-first century, but similar fragments of information circulated widely in 18th-century Paris and London. Comparisons of messages exchanged then and now reveal surprising parallels, and they raise questions about the way communication systems operate in different times and cultures.
Need Directions?
Withers Hall is located at 101 Lampe Drive, near the intersection of Hillsborough and Horne Streets. Free parking after 5 pm is available on Hillsborough Street or in the North Residence Hall parking lot, located on Hillsborough Street adjacent to Bruegger’s Bagels and in the small lots in front of 1911 and Patterson Hall (see stars on map).
Recommended Reading List
Books by Robert Darnton
The Case for Books. Public Affairs Paperback, 2010
Poetry and the Police. Harvard University Press, 2011